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Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence
This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines th…
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- 9780262279796
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 508 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change
A call for a broadened environmental movement that addresses issues of everyday life. In Environmentalism Unbound , Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it fr…
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- 9780262274111
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- 1 online resource (408 pages).
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Essays on Saving, Bequests, Altruism, and Life-cycle Planning
"The MIT Press"This collection of essays, coauthored with other distinguished economists, offers new perspectives on saving, intergenerational economic ties, retirement planning, and the distribution of wealth. The book links life-cycle microeconomic behavior to important macroeconomic outcomes, including the roughly 50 percent postwar decline in America's rate of saving and its increasing weal…
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- 9780262277525
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- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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Evolution, Gender, and Rape
"A Bradford book."Multidisciplinary critiques of the notion of rape as an evolutionary adaptation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285155
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- 1 online resource (vi, 454 pages) :illustrations
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Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazi…
A great deal of research has focused on the role of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and advocacy groups in promoting environmental ideologies. Researchers and activists have generally assumed antienvironmental and antiregulatory stances on the part of corporations. Exporting Environmentalism is the first book to examine industry's transnational promotion of environmental ideas and p…
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- 9780262273541
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages).
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Fairness in adaptation to climate change
Interdisciplinary scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change does not place unfair burdens on already vulnerable populations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266819
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) :illustrations
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A First Course in Turbulence
The subject of turbulence, the most forbidding in fluid dynamics, has usually proved treacherous to the beginner, caught in the whirls and eddies of its nonlinearities and statistical imponderables. This is the first book specifically designed to offer the student a smooth transitionary course between elementary fluid dynamics (which gives only last-minute attention to turbulence) and the profe…
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- 9780262310901
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- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) :illustrations
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Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints
An?alise comparativa sobre pol?itica fiscal e or?cament?aria nos seguintes pa?ises: Brasil, Estados Unidos, Canad?a, Noruega, Alemanha, Argentina, ?India, China, ?Africa do Sul, Ucr?ania, Hungria.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282482
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- 1 online resource (x, 476 pages) :illustrations
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Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends? :understanding the effe…
An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning…
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- 9780262352901
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- 1 online resource (368 pages).
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Science and environment in Chile :the politics of expert advice in a neoliber…
The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a "neutral broker" rather than protecting the common good. In Science and Environment in Chile , Javiera Barandiar?n examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge. Focusing on the experience of Chile afte…
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- 9780262347419
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- 1 online resource (284 pages).
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